# The Story of Miss Moppet - Source: The Tales of Beatrix Potter (potter.gutenberg.org), Public domain, Beatrix Potter, 1902 to 1912, via Project Gutenberg; recordings from LibriVox - Reading level: Ages 4 to 6 - Subjects: Stories, Animals - Topics: miss, moppet, mouse, cupboard, duster, thinks - Length: 224 words, about 2 min - Original: - Page: - Open in Sprouts: This is a Pussy called Miss Moppet, she thinks she has heard a mouse! This is the Mouse peeping out behind the cupboard, and making fun of Miss Moppet. He is not afraid of a kitten. This is Miss Moppet jumping just too late; she misses the Mouse and hits her own head. She thinks it is a very hard cupboard! The Mouse watches Miss Moppet from the top of the cupboard. Miss Moppet ties up her head in a duster, and sits before the fire. The Mouse thinks she is looking very ill. He comes sliding down the bell-pull. Miss Moppet looks worse and worse. The Mouse comes a little nearer. Miss Moppet holds her poor head in her paws, and looks at him through a hole in the duster. The Mouse comes *very* close. And then all of a sudden—Miss Moppet jumps upon the Mouse! And because the Mouse has teased Miss Moppet—Miss Moppet thinks she will tease the Mouse; which is not at all nice of Miss Moppet. She ties him up in the duster, and tosses it about like a ball. But she forgot about that hole in the duster; and when she untied it—there was no Mouse! He has wriggled out and run away; and he is dancing a jig on the top of the cupboard! ## Picture credits - Beatrix Potter, Public domain () - Beatrix Potter, Public domain () - Beatrix Potter, Public domain () - Beatrix Potter, Public domain () - Beatrix Potter, Public domain () - Beatrix Potter, Public domain () - Beatrix Potter, Public domain () - Beatrix Potter, Public domain () - Beatrix Potter, Public domain () - Beatrix Potter, Public domain () - Beatrix Potter, Public domain () - Beatrix Potter, Public domain () - Beatrix Potter, Public domain ()